Wiseacre

The book follows the usual jocular style of the "For Dummies" series (does the publisher have a special "wiseacre" editor?) including the cartoons and the usual "Part of Tens". ❋ Scottbourne (2010)

There was a gang of wiseacre boys who defiled the sacrament of confirmation—the Catholic equivalent of the bar and bat mitzvah—by choosing the silliest saint they could find, "Aloysius," for the confirmation name that the bishop would announce when it was their turn to get their cheeks slapped. ❋ Con Chapman (2011)

Labour's electoral system may not be a good one, but the big guns – from private financial donors, to wiseacre columnists, newspaper editorialisers and party grandees – almost all lined up for David, against Ed. The pro-Ed camp in the press has pretty much consisted of the People newspaper and three or four of us columnists. ❋ Jackie Ashley (2010)

He's also the single biggest and most shameless wiseacre on either side of the Mason-Dixon line. ❋ Carrie Underwood (2011)

Note the word "absolute" that the wiseacre slipped in there. ❋ Unknown (2009)

In the golden age of the family sitcom, children with the exception of wiseacre Rusty from Make Room for Daddy didn't zing their parents like Borsht-belt comics. ❋ Donald Liebenson (2011)

He also made regular wiseacre appearances on a little VH1 show called Best Week Ever spoiler: the best week ever was June 18 to 24, 1995. ❋ Steven Shehori (2011)

Swept into the orient as we learned, no one was too alarmed when some wiseacre in the back of the room had the good sense and quick whit to break out some hand cymbals. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Hunky wiseacre Ryan Reynolds has announced that his next project is entitled ‘Buried’, a film about a civilian contractor in Iraq who gets captured and buried alive with only a cell phone, candle, knife … … and his wits yo! ❋ Unknown (2009)

The two fellows -- Joe (Fran Kranz), a wallpaper hanger (!) and actually decent, and wiseacre Jeff (Eddie Kaye Thomas) -- add to the familiarly volatile mix, as Headland ostensibly writes about what and whom she knows in this "Gluttony" entry of an apparent Seven-Deadly-Sins series. ❋ Unknown (2010)

What GH/PH will gain is revenge, a small but possibly growing PLP following and in those long future soul searching years in the desolate wilderness that Labour will inhabit, a wiseacre ability to say 'we told you so' to Paxman and the after dinner circuit. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The shoot-‘em-up that occurs there is not just expertly choreographed like all the action scenes in “Wanted,” it’s got a wiseacre sense of humor. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The principal, sauntered over and said, "Now, don't be a wiseacre up there tonight." ❋ Greg Fitzsimmons (2010)

Jeff Rawle brings huge hangdog appeal to the part of a wiseacre, dispensing wisdom on the seafront; he doesn't bring the vocal chords of a nightingale. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Who knew some wiseacre from Sugar Land would be my Mariano Rivera? ❋ Unknown (2010)